THE SUICIDE KINGS

GENRE:  Comedy/ Drama/ Mystery
MADE:  1997
CAST:  Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery
DIRECTOR:  Peter O'Fallon
WRITER:  Josh McKinney, Gina Goldman, Wayne Allan Rice, Don Stanford

PLOT:  A group of close friends kidnap the head of the mafia in order to payoff kidnappers who has a sister held hostage.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  A Dog Day Afternoon, Nurse Betty, Sleepers

SCORE:

MAN ON FIRE

GENRE:  Action/ Crime/ Drama
MADE:  2004
CAST:  Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  A.J. Quinnell, Brian Helgeland

PLOT:  Creasy, an ex-assassin is hired to protect a family, when things go awry and little Pita is kidnapped Creasy seeks vengeance.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Sleepers, Training Day, Taken

SCORE:

TRUE ROMANCE

GENRE:  Crime/ Romance
MADE:  1993
CAST:  Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper
DIRECTOR:  Tony Scott
WRITER:  Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

PLOT:  Things can only go south when a young man marries a hooker and steals her pimp's stash of cocaine.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Training Day, Natural Born Killers, Pulp Fiction

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